Because we use so much less processed food, we have more organic and less packaging garbage than a typical US household. The volume for the city is staggering. They don't use the type of garbage truck you see in the US that packs the garbage in with hydraulic ram pressure. They use an open truck with a bed that is twice as long as a dump truck, and has sides about 9 feet tall. They stack the bags in from front to rear. Nothing is mechanized. The condo complex has a wheeled cart that three men use to take garbage bags from the dumpster to the truck, which stops just outside the front gate every morning. The size of the piles of garbage bags waiting for pickup on city streets is monumental. The many stray, skeletal dogs and cats, make a mess of any bags left out overnight.
Well, it seems that the condo management means something different than I thought they did by "don't put up a clothesline." I thought they meant that you could not put up anything permanent, but I just got told I could not have the rack on rollers, that we use to hang clothes from to dry, on the balcony. I have brought it inside, and now have a fan blowing on the semi-damp clothes. I guess they are "strict constructionists."
The life and observations of a retired American teacher living in the Philippines
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